Digital and Global Divide: Opposites of the Same World

In this modern era, where technology is considered as the native part of the society, the world is now considered as a global village where everybody has access to technology which is a just myth. There is a global digital divide in between the societies, in between the countries in terms of developing and developed countries and within the global divide essay this phenomenon is reviewed.

Before going to global divide there is a need to mention about the digital divide as it has a connection with the first one. This term was notified in the mid-1990s. This term was related to separation of new resources, modern information, new analytics versions, and has important role in modern technology information. it is also related to gap between humans which have modern vision and resources than those who don’t have.

This digital divide also promoting political issues and economic issues to a country. It is the divide between those with the access to information technology and those without. With the evolution on this planet Earth, people are struggling to adapting to their intense and harsh environment. Technology was the factor which gave the humanity a choice to adapt a best version of society. Technology is the sole of the environment. With the advance and modern information, people are growing at exponential rate, today the technology is our prime importance while the social and human factors are seen as secondary.

Now let's going into global divide: not everybody in this globe can access to information and technology. So it is right to say that there is a global divide on the base of digital divide. This global divide was basically start from the World War 1, when there were so much destruction causing people to live a harsh life just to feed themselves. This caused a global divide between Asian and American countries.

In Asia, many of the countries are poorer as compared to other western countries. People resources were less, people were facing famine, exploitation and racism. They could not get a chance to meet up a new era where there was modern technologies and information. Our Pakistan is also one of the developing country. It is also facing global divide due to lack of racism, political issues.

To end up, digital and global divides are two contrast of the same time - the time period that we have nowadays. People are facing poverty due to global divide and this causing them to grow under the bark. They are just depending for their existence. We are poor at information technology. As Japan was also facing global divide when America attacked them. They were helpless. This creates a global divide. Inequality in the society also leads to global digital divide.